Greyhound-class_destroyer

<i>Greyhound</i>-class destroyer

Greyhound-class destroyer

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Three Greyhound-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy during the First World War.[1] Built in 1899–1902, Greyhound, Racehorse and Roebuck were three-funnelled turtle-backed destroyers, with the usual Hawthorn funnel tops, built by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Company at their Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard.

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They were virtually identical to the Mermaid-class destroyer built a couple of years earlier by the same company, except that they used a different type of water-tube boiler; Yarrow rather than Thornycroft.[2] These four boilers produced 6,100 hp to given them the required thirty knots and they were armed with the standard 12-pounder guns and two torpedo tubes. They carried a complement of 63 officers and men. In 1913 the three - like all other surviving three-funnelled destroyers of the "30-knotter" group - were re-classed as C-class destroyers.

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  1. [1]
    "Greyhound Class Destroyer". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. [2]
    Lyon, The First Destroyers, p. 94
  • Lyon, David (2001) [1996]. The First Destroyers. Shipshape monographs. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1-84067-364-8.


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